chmod 666 ///
Jim Cornette
fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sat Apr 5 03:09:03 UTC 2008
Bruce Hyatt wrote:
> --- Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In a Unix (and Linux) pathname any sequence of one or more /
>> characters
>> collapses into a single /.
>>
>> Thus /// is exactly the same as / so your chmod affects only
>> files in
>> the root directory (and not those beneath it). Which is why I
>> thought /tmp might the cause of the problem.
>
> In that case, it seems odd to me that executing "chmod 777 ///"
> didn't allow me to startx.
>
> Bruce
>
The only file that I have n / is .autofsck the directories are set to
40755 except for /tmp which is set to 40777
Jim
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